The Dating Age Formula
Monday, September 10th, 2007 - 2:46pm
Webcomic xkcd confirms my earlier post as to this formula. (Second link goes to discussion later on in the thread.)
An important caveat that usually doesn't need mentioning in places that aren't the internet: Dating girls under the legal age of consent is creepy regardless of the math.
I'm happily dating a girl who is one day younger than I am. I just want to make that clear.
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You're formula was different, money!
(ur age + 7)/2 =/= (ur age/2) + 7
Look at me, I'm an english major, I rely on my wit and english lit books to balance my checkbook
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good find Smythe, and somewhere on the edge of the bell curve there is someone for all goodjers
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wordsmythe wrote:
The Nemeslut stuck up for me? Outrageous! (I might also have mentioned that "English," as the name of a language, is capitalized.)
As for the formula, I tend to sort of half-remember and half-make up the math of it every time it comes up. Once you leave school and have to actually apply math, you soon realize that most numbers lie anyway. This is to say: I'll use whichever formula helps prove my point.
But yeah, I wouldn't date outside 4 years from my age (soon to be 25) anyway.
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If she's interesting and hot, I don't give a sh*t about age.
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You'd better crack those English lit books and learn the difference between "your" and "you're."
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Ew.
Yep, looks like my job is done here.
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Have you been looking at my account record!?
I had a similar conversation at a bank window once, only I had to explain my use of triangles instead of minus signs (triangle means "delta" or change in chemistry equations), and why there were little hash-marks in my sevens and zeros(that way you KNOW they're not ones). That way several common math mistakes I'm very prone to making can't happen. You'd think I had been talking Sanskrit, though.
Don't forget the tiny little landscape I sketched in the corner while waiting in line to get up to the teller, and four strings of digits that may or may not be phone numbers to people who appear to be named "Myxlplyk" and "Augghhh!"
As far as the dating thing, is there a modular you can work in the equation to make it work the other direction, gender-wise?
Duoae wrote:
I thought it was unisex. If you flip it around, you can figure how old the other person can be without being creepy. In this iteration, that'd be 2( Your Age -7 ) = MaxAge... unless he's loaded, of course!
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Not hot for me, but if they float your boat, who am I to argue
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Don't Date Over Age = (ur age x 2) - 7 + (man's wealth / $1 million)?
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I think that's why it only works in one direction. To go in the other direction, you need to look at lifetime earnings, combined with the probability to live the rest of your life in splendor, ensuring that his kids are eating table scraps or something.
Coldstream wrote:
I'm sure it can be modified to add or detract depending on the net worth of the elder in question. The question is how much money is a year worth. Is it a direct relationship, or does the wealth need to increase exponentially (for example) as the age gap widens?
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Stupid multitasking brain, I need to upgrade to the next OS.
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Geologic ages don't factor into that correctly.
Or I'm so tired basic math is eluding me. By my read, that would mean my MaxAge = 62. Which is three years older than my mother. Uh, prolly not. I'm willing to walk the wild side of the bell curve, but that's way out on the bitter end.
Duoae wrote:
Dating a man twice your age is probably worth considering at $7 million US.
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Before anyone tries to figure it out, that means Momgamer is roughly 30. Any further inquisitions as to her age would be highly inappropriate.
But yes, the outer bounds are the sort of "beyond this place there be dragons." There is absolutely no way that you can go outside of them in a non-creepy way.
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That sort of roughly only works in horseshoes and hand grenades.
I'm curious when we hit that "there be dragons" level? I mean, when does this go from a pretty straight-forward P-type problem to an NP that makes the baby Jeebus cry?
Duoae wrote:
Let's say that at the boundaries given by the equation, the possibility of creepiness is effectively 100%, and that the probability of creepiness increases dramatically as you approach those outer bounds.
Let's say we'll just wing it from there, then.
..And in polite conversation within civilized society.
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I remember one time in high school my friend who was 18 was dating a 13 year old girl.... she was really very well developed though and er..... we did rib him for... well, till this day about the events.
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God, by the formula, (18/2)+7=16.
He's out of bounds! Of course, according to Wordsmyth, who won't let this drop and die from a previous forum, his formula (18+7)/2=12.5, which is totall acceptable for ol' Wordy, but only if they understand the differences between its and it's, there and their, loose and lose (this one drives me nuts!), and your and you're. If they understand possessives, then you automatically add 4 to her age.
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For those less mathematically inclined, I have shared this with my older friends racked with guilt.
"You can date them if you can imagine a situation right now where you could be in a college class with them."
This helps cover a lot of situations and, I hope, has both saved and enabled a lot of heartache and drama among my friends.
I think a rough translation is "Are they legal and is your social sphere totally alien to them?"
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What if the other person is the same sex? Not that I'm really going to follow through or anything.
Ouch, I have lost myself again
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Formula still applies.
Coldstream wrote:
1/2 your age +7. This was determined aeons ago as far as I can tell, Wordsmythe's misinterpretations can do nothing to alter the ancient formula.
(Just thought I'd resolve any lingering questions for ya.)
In reverse that should mean I (25) would be in the clear dating someone as young as 20 and and old as 36. Sounds about right - thinking about those boundaries is a bit uncomfortable.
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Look at the previous thread again. Word's math was way wrong. I was the one who posted the more accurate formula.
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Coldstream wrote: